on a sustainable path towards long-term economic growth and deficit reduction. hard to believe he could get through all of that and not use the term "rise above." he's deliberately leaving that out. he goes on to say the economic consequences of not rising above, he could have said, but he said of inaction, by our government could have been terrible. severe negative impact on every taxpayer and a painful return to recession. the e-mail includes a link to help employees find their representatives in washington and send an e-mail. i like this, but everybody -- send the link to the white house. rise above. i'm not wearing one today. >> i noticed. >> i'm not. because i think the white house is thumbing their nose at me. >> at you personally? >> at me personally. i'm wearing that, they're saying no, joe, no. did you read the front page of "the wall street journal"? hardening their positions. >> the democrats certainly are. what i wonder at this point is if the president by campaigning so hard to push it this way is going to push part of the wing of his party so far t